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unusual facts about Aquifer


Aquifer

The McMurray Formation in the Athabaska oil sands in northern Alberta, consists of "sandstone and shale deposited in a transgressive geological sequence", resulting in the "course grained texture of the basal deposits".


Aquifer test

Transmissivity The rate at which water is transmitted through a unit thickness of an aquifer under a unit hydraulic gradient.

Berlin Rules on Water Resources

Adopted on August 21, 2004 in Berlin, the document supersedes the ILA's earlier "The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers", which was limited in its scope to international drainage basins and aquifers connected to them.

Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy

Peabody Energy pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada.

Bottled water in the United States

Artesian water comes from a well tapping a confined aquifer in which the water level stands at some height above the top of the aquifer; it may be collected with the assistance of external force to enhance the natural underground pressure.

Eve Andree Laramee

This work zeroes-in on sites where Uranium mining/milling, plutonium production for nuclear weaponss and the nuclear energy industry have contaminated surface water, well water and deep aquifer water with radioactive isotopes and her work archives this atomic legacy.

Kirkdale, North Yorkshire

Corallian Limestone which outcrops on the hills surrounding the Vale of Pickering runs across the region, and this appears as an aquifer in Kirkdale swallowing most of the water from Hodge Beck, which reappears further downstream.

Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant

The potential for geothermal heating using the source aquifer arises from the Gotland tectonic belt and PolotskKurzeme fault belt interface in the area, which generates thermal anomalies.

Linda Abriola

She is particularly known for the research she has done on the characterization and remediation of chlorinated solvent-contaminated aquifers.

Lowden State Park

The Galena-Platteville Aquifer's spring water in the area travels south from Platteville and Glenwood, Wisconsin through layers of rocks into northern Illinois.

Newport Back Bay

The Orange County Water District (OCWD) manages extraction and replenishment of the aquifer.

Oglala

Ogallala Aquifer, an aquifer or concentration of groundwater in the U.S. Midwest

Operation Plowshare

One proposal suggested using nuclear blasts to connect underground aquifers in Arizona.

Paxton, Nebraska

Water was either taken from the North Platte River or the aquifer, which allowed the production of corn, winter wheat and other assorted vegetable crops in addition to raising livestock for consumption and sale.

River Otter

The River Otter rises in the Blackdown Hills just inside the county of Somerset, England near Otterford, then flows south for some 32 km through East Devon to the English Channel at the western end of Lyme Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Permian and Triassic sandstone aquifer in the Otter Valley is one of Devon's largest groundwater sources, supplying drinking water to 200,000 people.

Spelaeogriphacea

Of the three genera, Potiicoara is known only from a cave in Brazil's Mato Grosso, Spelaeogriphus only from a cave on Table Mountain in South Africa, and the two Mangkurtu species only from individual Australian aquifers.

Trial balloon

An example was when the New York Times reported in mid-June 2012 that Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff were deliberating on a plan to restrict hydrofracking to five counties in the 'southern tier' of New York, along the Pennsylvania border, where the Marcellus shale is deepest and drilling is least likely to pollute well water supplies in those aquifers.


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